Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At a New Year's Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station located on another planet, and much to the disbelief of her old flame, who interprets the night's events… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families - from Africa, Spain, and China - and their bond to one another and the island they call home. Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her. Life in Miami evokes memories of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents' attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Masterful storyteller and Cervantes Prize winner reflects on the power of literature and travel to change our lives. Introduction by Álvaro Enrigue.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After its liberation from harsh French rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A vacation in Paris! It was supposed to be a glorious time to immerse herself in culture, go to concerts, visit museums and forget what she had given up. Instead, Malena finds herself in a seedy striptease joint, forced to… read more
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 805 pp.
ISBN: 9780062668691
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop, is happily married and has a son. No longer the child who discovered the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he is still haunted by the mysterious death of his mother… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362… read more